The danger that lies ahead for Theresa May

Date of publication: 18 07 2017, 12:13

At the start of the last Cabinet meeting before recess, the Prime Minister will tell the leakers to respect the confidence of the Cabinet room.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been the subject of a concerted series of indiscretions, designed, in his eyes, to rein in his push for a soft landing transition to the process of leaving the European Union.

The sequence of verbatim accounts leaked by fellow Cabinet ministers has little precedent, like much in politics these days.

The PM, though, will be obliged to tell her own Cabinet to pipe down and concentrate on serving the country.

Some MPs feel a stronger prime minister would have fired the likely suspects, particularly as the Cabinet Secretary circulated in December an irate memo demanding that leakers, including ministers, be fired, even when the leaks did not include issues of national security.